Today’s Headlines for Tuesday February 2

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  • State rep Kam Buckner and 46 colleagues ask IDOT to consider racial equity when choosing investments
  • Man charged with DUI that killed female passenger, 24, on 3000 block of North LSD (NBC)
  • Chicago has only installed about half of the bikeway mileage proposed in the 2020 plan (Block Club)
  • Ald. Cardenas puts brakes on plan for drive-through Dunkin’ Donuts on prime TOD land (MPN)
  • Recyclery won $7.5K grant from AARP to fill Rogers Park potholes with cement, bike parts (Block Club)
  • Chainlinker requests a good bike route from the North Side to Oak Brook
  • Visiting flautist says he forgot $22K heirloom instrument on the Blue Line (CBS)
  • Bicycle Film Fest makes a virtual stop in Chicago 2/24-3/7 with ATA as host and beneficiary

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Today’s Headlines for Monday, February 1

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  • CMAP report: Traffic safety has been getting worse in the region during the pandemic
  • Alexander Solis, 9, dies days after car/semi crash on I-88 (Sun-Times)
  • Driver sustains minor injuries after fleeing traffic stop, crashing into Metra train (Sun-Times)
  • Metra Electric train halted in south suburbs after wires come down (CBS)
  • Tribune theater critic recalls struggling to get home by transit during the blizzard of 2011
  • Blair Kamin’s departure means Chicago has no full-time architecture critic (ArchDaily)
  • 40 pieces of public art in Chicago flagged as potentially problematic (Block Club)
  • How to stay safe while shoveling your sidewalk (Tribune)

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Today’s Headlines for Friday, January 29

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  • Oak Lawn mayor tries to politicize DUI killing of Cire Robinson, 12, blaming Kim Foxx (ABC)
  • Daily Herald interviews ATA advocacy manager Maggie Czerwinski
  • Anti-deconversion ordinance for Pilsen and 606 corridor passes City Council (Block Club)
  • Pace acknowledges it has a problem with snow-blocked bus stops
  • Developer plans to turn Weiss Hospital parking lot into 314 units with 113 spots (Block Club)
  • Lake Effect Brewing is coming to vacant firehouse near Jeff Park station (Block Club)
  • Looking back at the 2011 blizzard that left hundreds of drivers stranded on LSD (Tribune)
  • Tips for biking in snow (spoiler: any kind of tires will work on Chicago streets) (Tribune)

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Here are some tips on preventing the spread of COVID-19, and advice for Chicagoans on what to do if you think you may have been exposed to the virus.

I’d like to give a big thanks to everyone who has donated so far to help Streetsblog Chicago meet our goal of raising $50K. Along with the $75K pledged by the Chicago Community Trust for our 2021 budget, this will allow us to promote assistant editor Courtney Cobbs to co-editor and launch a new weekly series on mobility justice issues impacting Chicago’s Latino communities. Can you help us win the grant by chipping in? You can make a tax-exempt donation here.

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